almost done

So today is my last day of class since both finals I have are during the last week of class (next week). That means, my big AAC project is done, my test critique project is done, my Language Sample Analysis is done, as well as my two research papers. :) It is possible to get all A's, but we shall see how I do on the final exams. I should definitely get A-'s in all classes, but I would love to have straight A's for the first time ever since high school :) That would be nice.

My brother comes home Friday! We're really excited. He's been in Thailand for the past two years on his LDS mission. He's really excited to come home, but sad to leave Thailand. He sent his last e-mail this morning, so it really is starting to feel like near the end for him. He's done with the mission field stuff, today they are going to dinner at some mission president's home, then he helps with some final things with the last moves, then he's on his way to the airport! crazy! What's really awesome, the mission president people (not his mission president, a couple from Australia, where they were in the mission presidency for 6 years) had him over for dinner. Afterward they wrote an e-mail to our family saying how awesome he is, and how he took time to write thank you notes, how he was so nice and mature (my brother? now way!), etc. It was a really sweet letter, and I know it made my parents beam with pride. :)

We'll all be meeting him at the airport on Friday night, then stop at my grandparents on the way home so they can see him too since they can't travel much at all. Then go home, have some chili and just catch up and hang out (he'll probably be busy with his girlfriend :) ). The cool part about all this, my other brother is coming from Boston with his girlfriend. I finally get to meet her! My parents and my two younger sisters have met her, but that's it. Plus it'll be so nice to see the WHOLE family in one place again. Then we're taking family pictures Saturday since Brent and Michael will both be there. Afterwards\ some church service stuff, then hang out maybe see the creche exhibit. Sunday we're having our REAL Thanksgiving dinner, mom saved it for when michael would be home. For Thanksgiving day, she made a Christmas dinner for Bryan and I since we won't be there for Christmas (we'll be in san francisco visiting HIS family). Then Bryan and I need to come home after the dinner since he has class, and I have work and need to study for my exams. Then Monday, we're meeting up at the mall to do christmas shopping together (this is something that we've done all growing up), and meet at Training Table for dinner. It'll be a fun weekend, probably a bit overwhelming for Michael, but he'll get over it since everyone is just excited to see him.

It snowed last night, and it was still snowing lightly this morning. I hope the snow sticks around long enough for Michael to come home since he hasn't seen snow for two years! I hope it stays for me as well, I LOVE snow. :)

Other than that, nothing really new since Bryan already posted about Chance and Jenny coming. That was fun, like he said, we felt bad for being really busy, but I think they still had fun...I hope. We also got to go see the Logan temple as well, it's nice seeing new temples. I've been able to see 9 temples in the past two years, of course some of them more than once, but it's nice just seeing the different designs and such. We may try to go to the Sacramento temple in December when we're there. I also my try to go to Fresno if it's possible in February when I'm there for a board meeting. We shall see.

Anyway...yeah, long post, a pat on your back if you made it through :)

Update

So an update :)

My outlines are done for both research papers. I got one back, the one that was kicking my butt, and got full credit on it. Feels good. Now I just need to finish the research paper for Tuesday. That won't be hard since the outline is done.
I've got another big assignment done, just have to do my presentation with my partner now. The presentation is all set up and ready to go, just have to actually do it in class now. YAY! :)
After that, I'll just have to finish one more research paper, then ALL big assignments are done for the semester, I only have one more minor assignment for one class coming up. Then it's the two finals the first week of December. I MAY pull of all A's...we shall see. :)
My brother has been on a mission in Thailand. He comes on November 30th! His flight arrives around 6:30 at night. I can't believe it, so weird. So excited to see him :)
Our bookcase finally came, so I've been able to unpack all of our books! NO MORE BOXES!!! YAY! Just need to take care of some odds and ends in our office, then everything is done and we can finally call this a CLEAN, ORGANIZED home. :)
We've also got our Kitchen Island up from Ikea. That feels really nice too, since we had to leave it out to dry several times, thus taking forever to paint it. Now I can actually reach our pots and pans since they're on the shelves of the island. (this apartment seems to have been made for a short person married to a really tall person...The top cabinets are DANG hard to reach, and the ONE socket in the bathroom is on the light...also high up. However, the shower head was SUPER low, so we had to buy a big shower head that would raise up more so that we could stand under it).
last night we had a date night. Went to Bed Bath and Beyond to get some things for our place, and grabbed dinner at Panda Express. Then we went and saw The Bee Movie, since it was captioned in theater this week. I highly recommend it just like Bryan did. Good, clean, fun. Seinfeld is awesome :)
We have some friends coming to visit around Thanksgiving, we're really excited about it. We miss them a lot. I'll also be seeing my family then too, and at that time, it'll only be another week until Michael gets home!
Life over all is really darn good now that the stressful paper is almost out of my way. :)